| In 1943, Congress inposed a withholding system on taxpayers. Federal income tax was withheld from workers pay and set directly to the U.S. Treasury. The number of taxpayers jumped from 4 million in 1939 to 42.7 million 1945. |
| In 1944, Congress passed the Serviceman's Readjustment Act. The G.I Bill, as it was called, made low-cost loans to veterans who wanted to buy homes or start buisiness |
| The G.I. Bill, also gave all returning soldiers an opportunity for a college education, which, in turn, changed job availabilty and heralded a new working middle class |
| Racial segregation was no longer acceptable to returning African American soldiers |
| Women who had experianced a new sense of freedom and idependence wer not ready to leave workplace and return to the homemaker roles that had been thier only option before the war. And, new inventions were releasing women from many of the time consuming homemaking responsibilities |
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